WASHINGTON  The National Security Agencys dominant role as the nations spy warehouse has spurred frequent tensions and turf fights with other federal intelligence agencies that want to use its surveillance tools for their own investigations, officials say.

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The other agencies feel they should be bigger players, said Mr. Edgar, who heard many of the disputes before leaving government this year to become a visiting fellow at Brown University. They view the N.S.A.  incorrectly, I think  as this big pot of data that they could go get if they were just able to pry it out of them.

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The security agency, whose mission is to spy overseas, and the F.B.I., its main partner in surveillance operations, dominate the process as the Justice Departments main customers in seeking warrants from the intelligence court, with nearly 1,800 approved by the court last year.

The security agencys spy tools are attractive to other agencies for many reasons. ... The standard of evidence needed to acquire them may be lower than in other courts, and the government may not be required to disclose for years, if ever, that someone was the focus of secret surveillance operations.

Just wait until the FDA, EPA, and IRS get their hands on those goods...

Yes. Once these totally captured agencies get it you know Obama's OFA will have it - not that they don't have most of it now thanks to Google, Facebook, and the rest of the totalitarian enablers in the high tech world.

Mr. Edgar said officials in the national intelligence directors office occasionally allow other agencies a role in identifying surveillance targets and seeing the results when it is relevant to their own inquiries. But more often, he acknowledged, the office has come down on the side of keeping the process held to an exclusive club at the N.S.A., the F.B.I. and the Justice Department, with help from the Central Intelligence Agency on foreign issues.

Those at the top head Zero's brown shirt agencies. If you don't think they allow indiscriminate monitoring, you are not clued in at all. They obviously openly target political opponents.

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posted on 08/04/2013 7:26:24 AM PDT
by Texas Fossil
(Once a Republic, since then a State in the US, but it is Still Texas where I live.)

I agree. We’ve tried holding the line within the system, but we’re dealing with an administration that has no regard for the rule of law, and an ideology that has no morality whatsoever. So our options are becoming fewer and fewer ...

Lots of people have been talking about this for a long time. I, myself, was called an idiot only about six months ago for saying the government was spying on us through social sites. It wasn’t anyone on here who called me an idiot but I was told a few times to get some tin foil.

And most conservatives think the NSA spying machine is just wonderful if it keeps us safe. Like it kept the Boston Marathon watchers safe.

At this day and age we shouldn’t be surprised by anything the government does.

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posted on 08/04/2013 9:51:12 AM PDT
by VerySadAmerican
(If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)

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